September 18, 2024 3:24 PM

Kremlin warns Lebanon pager attack is a possible trigger for wider Middle East conflict

The Kremlin warned on Wednesday that an attack on Lebanese group Hezbollah and others using exploding pagers could become a trigger for a wider regional conflict and called for its perpetrators to be identified in an investigation. Tuesday's attack saw thousands of pagers detonate across Lebanon, killing nine people and wounding nearly 3,000 others, including the group's fighters and Iran's envoy to Beirut. A senior Lebanese security source and another source told Reuters that Israel's Mossad ...